Blue Plaque Mapping project

Blue Plaques mark the location of buildings which are linked with people of historical importance.

The new BLUE PLAQUE GUIDE project aims to produce an interactive map, which maps the hundreds of buildings which have received a plaque, with the aid of your help...

You can make your own BLUE PLAQUE at this BLUE PLAQUE GENERATOR site...

Here's one I made earlier...

Following text with thanks to the Historical Association website, which describes the project nicely....

The idea of erecting plaques to commemorate the link between famous people and buildings in which they lived or worked first took root in the mid nineteenth century. The first appeared in 1866, put up by the Royal Society of Arts. Since 1986 the scheme has been overseen by English Heritage.
The plaque guide site includes a map display where users can click on the location of each plaque, be immediately linked to a biography and view details on the plaque itself. The use of Google's StreetView means users can also ‘step into the map' to see the plaque in its real life environment.
If someone is interested in people from a particular background, they can also search. The site does not yet have total coverage. Plaque Guide has 230 of the city's plaques but the site's creator, David Coughlan, is now asking the public and children in particular, to help him complete the rest.
Coughlan hopes people will see the invitation to add the location and details of the outstanding blue plaques as an irresistible challenge, much like other ‘crowd sourced' projects like OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia. Adding the location of a plaque is as easy as clicking on the map itself, while a smartphone app is planned for later in the year to enable ‘plaque tagging' on the move.

If you're based in London why not get mapping, and get your students mapping. Would make a good summer project. Who can map the most plaques ?